The Indiana State sentinel., 1887-04-06

there a number on the door?"
mo, sir; there is letter L.
Very well; go inside and tell what you
see"
The mesmerized boy entered the room
aud described and accurately located every
article of furniture, described every picture,
told the time by the clock, and even gave
the coIOrs of the gas globes. Neither Mi.
Alderman nor the boy had ever entered
the hotel. Some of the articles described
had been placed in the room only an hour
before. He was sent into three different
rooms in the same hotel, and he did not
make one mistake. The hotel is mile
from the residence where the exhibition
was given. He was brought out OF the
hotel and sent to a residence a mile further
away, and the colloquy went on:
Are you there2"
"Yesn
"What kind of house is it?''
ga Double brick"
"Are the steps wood or stone"
Neither; they are iron.'
NOW, go inside. Is there carpet on
the hall iOor?"
mo; the floor is of tile"
"Where Is the parlor?"
ITO the right"
"Go in and tell me what you see"
There's a square piano, a sofa chairs,
ETC." He described everything, even to
photographs, and told the time by the
parlor clock
Now, go up stairs. Any one up there?"
Yes; an Irish woman"
"Ask her nameY
"She won't give it. She wants to know
what I'm doing here"
"But ask her name?'
"She says it's Mollie."
Such, in truth, was and Is the name of
the Irish servant. He afterward located q
girl reading at a table, and gave the name
Of the book in her hand, and the next day
we verified his statements. One of the gen.
tlemen at the sceance owns salt block at
Marine City. At his sugt estion the boy
was sent up there. He landed on the dock,
accurately described every building, and
then went 10 the salt block and correctly
located the engine-roon, described the
engineer and went outside and around the
place and read off score OF signs without
making a mistake. He had never been in
Marine City, but the smartest man in
America could not come away from the
town after stay of three days and describe
things as accurately as the boy did.
Then came the new experiment | sug-
gested to Mr.. Alderman to see il the boy
could go backward in his mind and see an
old occurrence. Three years ago drug clerk
was shot down in front OF the store By an
assassin. 1 have worked with the police on
the case, and know what has been discov-
tIcus AuCM VIII llICu buC ouOtf Wnab AO1t
and which way he ran to make his escape.
A hundred people knew how the clerk was
dressed when found dead. The experiment
was as follows:
'Now, Waly, come up Cass avenue to the
Triangle drug store"
Yes"
"Go inside and tell me who is there"
| The boy accurately described the clerk
who was there that evening"
ask what has ever happened around
here.n
"He says a clerk was shot down in front
| of the store about three years ago."
Very well; want you to 90 back to that
night. Are you thereT
''It is now IL o'clock at night. Can you
see the clerk"
Yes; he's in bed"
| Very well. A pause of ten seconds
What is he doing now"
"Some one has called him; he's getting
up
down stairs now?'
"Yes, and man is scolding him.
| what is he saying"
"He's saying the clerk has made him
trouble, andhe won't stand it. He's got a
revolver. and I'm afraid of him.
What sort OF a looking man Is hep
'I-Fm afraid"
. ne CdL AuIb 1OuS SO CAOScA
"WeIl, he's a." Here he gave per-
feet description of the man known to have
committed the murder.
"How is the clerk dressed?'
"He's got on" Here he described
exactly the dress of the clerk as found and
noted by the detectives. He screamed out
in terror when the shot was fired, followed
the murderer to the river and across to
Canada, and there, in the midnight dark
ness, lost him in a coal-yard.l While the
experiment OF ante-dating was great sue
cess, the boy was so overcome by what he
tad apparently witnessed that we could
get no more work out of him that evening
that is, he was so plainly prostrated that
Mr.. Alderman would not subject him to
further strain. Now, let some skeptic
pooh-pooh at what the boy described, and
/ will convince him. Q) While he had
doubtless heard of the case, he described
things never known 20 any one but the
detectives. (2) He got perfect descrp-
ton of the man, as the detectives affirm,
tion, (3) He gave the cause OF the shooting
as he detectives understand it, but as
| known TO no one else.
This TX pertinent opened new field to
Mr.. Alderman. and it was agreed to have
another private exhibition on the evening
of the 10Th. At bis suggestion went TO
police headquarters and hunted up several
cases and iotted down dates and particu.
lars. There were present at the exhibition
some of the best known sople in Detroit,
most OF whom came as skeptics. I0ung
Andrus had left the town during the week
and gone to Cleveland, and the other boy,
Charley Delano, had never been snte-dated.
After being placed under the influence, he
was sent to the residences OF persons pres
ent. His first effort was partial failure
but his second was q great success, and al
the third house he told the right name OF q
domestic. At IL 80 o'clock on that day at
oyercoat had been stolen from the sec md
floor of tenement. A little girl described
the thief. while the owner of the lost coa
described the garment. / wrote every
thing down to make sure there could b